Jewellery development - brass medals for the anti robot people

Jewellery development - Sand casting

Sand casting our badges- We used the 3D printed model as a master pattern for our sand casting moulds. We had decided to cast in brass as it was cheaper than silver. However we encounter a number of problems. It was difficult to calculate the amount of brass lemel needed, this was because the nylon of the 3D printed model has a different specific gravity to wax and it was not possible to find out the SP of the nylon. The second problem was medal flow within the sand mould, we try positioning the master model in various ways but without success. The third problem was that brass cools very quickly and the cold sand mould hindered this even more. The fouth problem was that brass generally doesn't like to flow very well in it's molten state and given we were just pouring the medal into the mould we had to rely on gravity to pull the medal down into the mould. We also tried with pewter. This yielded better results, however still not at a good enough standard. Our solution was to invest the two 3D printed models and cast them using the centrifugal casting machine. We had also decided to have our design laser cut in perspex.

Final work - History and consequences.

What is happening in 2116?

We are a high tech robot company which is highly established, we are producing robots that are doing jobs for public services which has been happening over a period of time, this means that there have been replacements to jobs over that period of time.

Creating a more advance society, which means that it gives humans more free time to be creative and have creative jobs, more towards science and art sectors. This has created some job loses which has led to some members of society feeling excluded, rebelling against the changes, and the government and our company Actuator Laboratories.

Company ethos & History

Our company ethos is to improve human society and enable the improvement within the job sectors that are particularly dangerous, manually demanding and mundane. The high-spec and state of the art robotics are environmentally friendly, low-maintenance and are designed solely to aid the public.

On the contrary, our idealistic society has inevitably caused conflict and an elitist class-divide within our community. Those of a poorer background have been left out of work and now feel useless and redundant. The cities which are equipped and optimised by our intervention, have abundant and efficient services, this is only available to the ‘elite’ and richer citizens. The poor are left to live in shanty and unkempt locations where the nexus of the rebellion movement thrives.

Development of Jewlery

Images showing the open sand casting moulds and Ivan and Nicky at the Forge melting brass.

Presentation

Final Poster and leaftletsIn

Leaflet inside cover

Leaflet Outside cover

Poster for people who are rebelling against the use of robots and how this could effect their future jobs, roles and society

Poster Advertising sales of Robots.

Possible Utopian Future

With Robots taking over more and more manual tasks leaving humanity more time spent on science, technology, art and design would this create a Utopian future? And what would that look like?

Things hypothesized that only humans would be focused on and towards in this future rather than manual labour (Its not all bad!):
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/22/robots-can-take-over-some-of-our-jobs-but-some-things-only-humans-can-do

How machines are not likely to rises above humans and measures organisations such as Future of Life Institution are taking to stop this:
http://www.livescience.com/49625-robots-will-not-conquer-humanity.html

Will Robots create and economic utopia? :
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-02-11/will-robots-create-economic-utopia